Disqus Comment System

Description

Disqus is the web’s most popular commenting system trusted by millions of publishers to increase reader engagement, grow audience and traffic, and monetize content. Disqus helps publishers of all sizes engage directly with their audiences to build loyalty, retain readers, and foster thriving communities.

Installation

Go to “Plugins” > “Add Plugin”

Search for “Disqus Comment System” by Disqus

Click “Install Now”

Activate the plugin

(Automatic: easiest) From the Install page of the Disqus plugin settings, follow the Automatic Installation steps to set up Disqus on your site. During this process, you will need to create a Disqus account and register your site. This also creates the API application required for enabling Comment Syncing.

Syncing comments to WordPress

Comment Syncing copies comments made in Disqus to your WordPress installation as backup in case you ever decide to switch back to native WordPress comments. Syncing is not enabled by default. To enable syncing, you’ll need to set it up either by creating an API application (follow instructions here) or via Automatic Installation in the plugin.

Installation trouble?

FAQ

Yes! Disqus is free to use. We also provide subscription plans for larger, commercial sites that want access to more powerful moderation and audience tools and customization.

How do I customize the look-and-feel of Disqus?

Disqus automatically checks your site’s font and background color and adapts to either a light or dark color scheme, along with a serif or sans-serif font. If these are detected incorrectly, you can override them in your Settings.

Will I lose comments if I deactivate Disqus?

The Disqus for WordPress plugin automatically syncs comments back to WordPress. These comments will remain in WordPress should Disqus be deactivated or removed. You can also export your comments from Disqus at any time.

Can I import my existing WordPress comments into Disqus?

Yes, you can import your existing WordPress comments into Disqus during installation.

Reviews

I thought Disqus was a legit firm until I tried this dreadful plugin.
One site I just tried it on has about 25,000 posts and the stupidly designed import comments feature hammers the server and never completes, there is no rate limiting and no sensible design in this plugin.
It doesn't even attempt to figure out with a simple database query which posts to prioritize and import first, useless!
Whoever wrote the plugin at Disqus should be fired, they need new people on it.

Pay disqus Plus, where you can turn off advertising.
But advertising does not turn off and still shows. Support is not responding at all.
it was a bug. Everything works without ads. But support is responding with a big delay.

Beware of using this plugin, especially if you have to respect the GPDR in europe.
Because it activates Google Analytics to somewhere and someone (but not yourself!). Come on Disqus you can't do it secretly.

We planned on using disqus on 4 of our brands because of the the huge community unfortunately disqus was a disaster.
we lost 3K comments from 2012 because during importation disqus multipled it by 3. that is 9K comments.
we even at that we overlooked and and wants to build new comments from start but comments won't appear on wordpress and when it appears on wordpress it won't appear on disqus.
the worst part of it is that they only respond once a day.
BECAREFUL